IX interior fuel guage, need a bit of help.

Ducimus · 03-30-06, 12:10 PM

I beleive the IX interior fuel guages are broken in two (possibly three) respects:

1.) The bubble indicator is black and is hard to see. Unlike the VII interior which is yellowish and easy to see. Presumably theres a TGA to extract somewhere that needs to be recolored, (or so is my hope), but i can't seem to find it, and ive gone over both the VII interior control room files and the IX's and i can't find it.

2.) THe scale is off.
Heres a picture of the fuel at 100% when startign a mission.
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?p..._id=0&warned=y

Heres a picture where i ran the fuel down to 50%.
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?p..._id=0&warned=y

My guess about this, is the adjusment for this might be in the control room.sim file. Reason is, this is the file the intrrument patch used to correct several gauges. However hex editing isn't quite my forte as ive already loaded thsi file up, but can't make any sense of it.

3.) Background texture for the fuel guage itself, looks an aweful lot like another interior TGA tahts used to show the shadowing and such in the boat. In otherwords a background TGA that was meant to be used elsewhere. the VII fuel guage is all silver, unlike the one in the above two pics. This is just a hunch however, i really don't know for sure. Its probably not an issue, but it does seem to be the case as far as i can tell.

So... any ideas on how to:

1.) color the bubble yellowish

and

2.) adjust the guage so its inscale with the acutal fuel level?

03-30-06, 12:10 PM	#1
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	IX interior fuel guage, need a bit of help. I beleive the IX interior fuel guages are broken in two (possibly three) respects: 1.) The bubble indicator is black and is hard to see. Unlike the VII interior which is yellowish and easy to see. Presumably theres a TGA to extract somewhere that needs to be recolored, (or so is my hope), but i can't seem to find it, and ive gone over both the VII interior control room files and the IX's and i can't find it. 2.) THe scale is off. Heres a picture of the fuel at 100% when startign a mission. http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?p..._id=0&warned=y Heres a picture where i ran the fuel down to 50%. http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?p..._id=0&warned=y My guess about this, is the adjusment for this might be in the control room.sim file. Reason is, this is the file the intrrument patch used to correct several gauges. However hex editing isn't quite my forte as ive already loaded thsi file up, but can't make any sense of it. 3.) Background texture for the fuel guage itself, looks an aweful lot like another interior TGA tahts used to show the shadowing and such in the boat. In otherwords a background TGA that was meant to be used elsewhere. the VII fuel guage is all silver, unlike the one in the above two pics. This is just a hunch however, i really don't know for sure. Its probably not an issue, but it does seem to be the case as far as i can tell. So... any ideas on how to: 1.) color the bubble yellowish and 2.) adjust the guage so its inscale with the acutal fuel level?